Using AVS images in video production

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> Me gets good results using an external >VGA-TV-converter, a Sony digital camcorder >and a Fast-DV-Card and capturing from >fullscreen 800x600 pixs using >pixeldoubling...

EL-Vis: Of course you will get a nice clean image if all of your gear is working properly and your scan converter is of decent quality. (in my experience decent scan converters are very expensive: the TV-out on a modern VGA card is of far higher quality than any affordable SC).

BUT Theres still a big difference between a captured analogue signal and a digitally recorded AVI. colours change, borders move, vertical refresh sync is lost. I'm talking about the kind of high quality that will allow you to apply effects to a clip of live footage, and then edit this effected clip back in with the original footage without noticeable change in colour values. an analogue recording solution will NOT allow this.

Of course it depends on what kind of material you are using/creating. the human eye is far more sensitive to small changes in flesh tones and images of real things than in abstract generated graphics. And it all depends what you are using it for. I've used AVS to generated graphics for music videos that have been broadcast...